Murder in the Dollhouse
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A nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Jennifer Dulos and the aftershocks that rattled a wealthy suburb. Rich Cohen’s Murder in the Dollhouse is the chilling, unputdownable story of Jennifer Dulos, a beautiful, rich suburban mother who dropped her kids off at the New Canaan Country School one morning and vanished. Her body has never been found. Dulos was in the midst of an ugly divorce—one of the most contentious in Connecticut state history. The couple, a beautiful, highly connected pair, met at Brown University, had five children, and led what appeared to be a charmed life. In the wake of her disappearance, Dulos’s husband and his girlfriend were arrested. He killed himself on the day he was supposed to report to court; she was tried and convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. A gripping story of status, wealth, love, and hate, Murder in the Dollhouse peers beneath the sparkling veneer of propriety that surrounded the Duloses to uncover the origins and motivations of a crime that has become a national obsession.
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This was really sad. Just a reminder that no amount of wealth can insulate women against intimate partner violence/murder.
I would have given this five stars because it was really well written and when I wasn't listening to it, I was thinking about listening to it but I really hate - HATE - when writers put thoughts/words into the mouths of murder victims. The book ends with Cohen imagining what Jennifer thought as Fotis murdered her and I don't know, it always makes me uncomfortable. We will never know and that sort of thing, while I understand the point, seems better suited to fiction rather than nonfiction.
